The St. Johns herald., 1887-06-23

lieved to be a serious person. There is nothing about him of that cor ruscating uncertainty which is apt to astonish us when we listen to Mr. Blaine. He is supposed to mean what he says, or at least 10 impress mankind with the convic- ton that he does, which in politics Is the same thing. To hear a voice of thunder in the North after these cooing notes of harmony and con ciliation in ihe South is what might be expected from many republicans from Hawley or Ingalls,, or even Evarts. To have this from Sher- man, however, shows the insincer- ity of the cause, and not the weak ness of his intellect or the poverty of his resources. No man knows better the folly of what he has been saying than this same cool headed Sherman.
 Never, even when at its best, rep resenting the general American sen timent, the republican party has come to live upon a policy of plum der and demagogism. Its later measures for national development arc simply so many chapters in the history of corruption, and if our readers care to enter upon the de- tails of republican rule, for several years at least, they will be found in reports of Congressional commit tees of investigation, impeachment processes and criminal proceedings at law for malfeasance in office. The Treasury was robbed in the holy name of emancipation. Gov ernments of ignorance and ruffian- ism were imposed upon the South in the sacred cause of the Union, and if nIr. Blaine had remained in the control of our foreign affairs we should have had one South American war and perhaps another war with England. So badly were our finances managed that nothin but unprecedented material pros i perity kept us from bankruptcy. The party fell under the control of the mercenary classes that follow all parties. In time these classes came to command it, under Mir. Blaine, the most brilliant leader known in American politics since Aaron Burr. The wisdom, the pru- dence, the patriotism, the piety oi the party gradually left it, and the Jacobins took cOntrol-a control that is unquestioned to d iy. The French Revolution passed from RO land and Lafayette into the hands of Robespierrc and Fouquier- Tin. vile, The republican party ha: passed from Lincoln and Chase tC Dorsey and Jay Gould In Uni:
 history repeated itself, but it like
 wise repeated itself by the country i in the election of MT. Cleveland
 overthrowlng a domination of brig
 ands as irretrievably as France overthrow the knaves and lnadm II
 of the Mountain.
 The country is now governed by
 a national party. For twenty-five
 years it was impossible for tht President to find a gentleman soutl of Mason and Dixon's line to holC
 office. As a consequence, in grea
 departments of the government in the Supreme Court, diplomacy the army and the navy-depart
 ments where personal charactel even more than intellectual emi
 hence is demanded, large part o. the Union has fer twenty-five year: had no representation. The causes of this were unfortunate and no
 always attributable to the republi
 can Presidents, who would gladly have had it otherwise. They were causes, all the same, which happily no longer exist. Our finances were never upon a surer foundation thar now. All the meritorious achieve
 ments of the war have been consC' crated by the acceptance of every class and condition of man. There has been a manife,t t advance toward